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Determination or willpower is one of the most dynamic of all human traits and the good news is that it isn’t really something which is immutable. Determination can be easily developed and reinforced with a bit of positivity, belief, patience, mind-power and will. No matter how big a challenge is, if you have the determination, you can easily sail through it. Determination is the mantra of successful people who don’t believe in quitting. Trail down these famous willpower quotations and sayings and boost your determination for good.

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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.

Chuck Palahniuk

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Eleanor Roosevelt

If I had not actually got into this work and been called of God, I would back out. But I cannot back out: I have no doubt of the truth.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

All great achievements require time.

Maya Angelou

“It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a permanent contribution to science.

Marie Curie

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

Michael Jordan

I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.

Michael Jordan

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

I've never been afraid to fail.

Michael Jordan

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

Michael Jordan

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Jean Paul Sartre

I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.

Mia Hamm

The person that said winning isn't everything, never won anything.

Mia Hamm

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

Napolean Hill

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

Bill Cosby

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

Theodore Roosevelt

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Napolean Hill

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

Nelson Mandela

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

Nelson Mandela

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

William Faulkner

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

Milan Kundera

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

William Faulkner

I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.

Milan Kundera

Slow but steady wins the race.

Aesop

My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.

Val Kilmer

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

Archimedes

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Brian Tracy

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life.

Brian Tracy

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

Brian Tracy

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

Vince Lombardi

Don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.

Clint Eastwood

If you think it's going to rain, it will.

Clint Eastwood

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

Dolly Parton

I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.

Angelina Jolie

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

B. C. Forbes

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

B. C. Forbes

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

Henry David Thoreau

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

B. C. Forbes

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Henry David Thoreau

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

Fidel Castro

I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.

Charlie Chaplin

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Walt Disney

In this industry, there are only two ways up the ladder. Rung by rung or claw your way to the top. It's sure been tough on my nails.

Jack Nicholson

Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.

Janis Joplin

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

B. F. Skinner

Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.

B. F. Skinner

I've got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment.

Andrew Jackson

Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission.

Andrew Jackson

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

Andrew Jackson

If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.

Lucille Ball

All men's gains are the fruit of venturing .

Herodotus

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Really try to follow what it is that you want to do and what your heart is telling you to do.

Jennifer Aniston

Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Ovid

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Ovid

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

Thomas Hardy

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

Thomas Hardy

If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.

Elizabeth I

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

John Locke

Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

James Allen

It's better to burn out, then to fade away.

Kurt Cobain

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

James Allen

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Aim for the highest.

Andrew Carnegie

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

Chanakya

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

Colin Powell

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Colin Powell

Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.

Colin Powell

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.

Ezra Pound

Sometimes oppurtunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

Julie Andrews

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

Kahlil Gibran

We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.

Robert E. Lee

There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.

Louis XIV

They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.

Dorothy Day

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

Francis Bacon

In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

Douglas MacArthur

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

Dylan Thomas

Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.

Horace

I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.

Horace

In the beginning I used to make one terrible play a game. Then I got so I'd make one a week and finally I'd pull a bad one about once a month. Now, I'm trying to keep it down to one a season.

Lou Gehrig

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

Og Mandino

Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.

Og Mandino

My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.

Jessica Alba

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

Steve Jobs

I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.

Ken Kesey

I used to be indecisive but now I am not quite sure.